The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared Arineta Cardio Imaging's SpotLight and SpotLight Duo family of cardiovascular CT scanners.
SpotLight is powered by the company's Stereo CT technology and has a 25-cm field of view. It also features a 120-millisecond temporal resolution, one-beat whole heart coverage, spatial resolution via a 0.5-mm detector, and x-ray tube power for image quality (139 kW effective).
SpotLight Duo is the second-generation of Arineta CT technology that features 45-cm high-resolution scanning for full cardio-thoracic clinical applications.
Arineta also highlighted presentations delivered at the Society of Cardiovascular CT (SCCT) conference, held in July in Boston, that described how the systems could expand CT access to underserved populations in rural, outpatient, and community hospital settings.
![Images show the pectoralis muscles of a healthy male individual who never smoked (age, 66 years; height, 178 cm; body mass index [BMI, calculated as weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared], 28.4; number of cigarette pack-years, 0; forced expiratory volume in 1 second [FEV1], 97.6% predicted; FEV1: forced vital capacity [FVC] ratio, 0.71; pectoralis muscle area [PMA], 59.4 cm2; pectoralis muscle volume [PMV], 764 cm3) and a male individual with a smoking history and chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder (COPD) (age, 66 years; height, 178 cm; BMI, 27.5; number of cigarette pack-years, 43.2, FEV1, 48% predicted; FEV1:FVC, 0.56; PMA, 35 cm2; PMV, 480.8 cm3) from the Canadian Cohort Obstructive Lung Disease (i.e., CanCOLD) study. The CT image is shown in the axial plane. The PMV is automatically extracted using the developed deep learning model and overlayed onto the lungs for visual clarity.](https://img.auntminnie.com/mindful/smg/workspaces/default/uploads/2026/03/genkin.25LqljVF0y.jpg?auto=format%2Ccompress&crop=focalpoint&dpr=2&fit=crop&h=167&q=70&w=250)
